Learning LSP by Collaborating: How to Link Student Writers and Journalists, Usability Testers, and Translators Internationally, Interlingually, and Interculturally through Learning-By-Doing Projects

Abstract : With a view to training LSP trainers in the value of arranging student collaborations and the ease with which it can be done, this workshop is designed to offer two 90-minute sessions at which participants can learn how to set up and run their own international, interlinguistic, and/or intercultural collaborations by forming students from their courses into cross-cultural virtual teams (CCVTs). Each session will begin with an overview of the variations in the particular type of collaboration